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Birding Apps for iPhone
Here are some of the latest and greatest birding apps for iPhone. Two that
stick out among the competition are the iBird Pro and the BirdsEye applications.
Both have field guide related information, but the BirdsEye app also allows
users to see what birds have been recently sighted in specific locations and has
an inventory of birding hotspots as well.

View BirdsEye
Some Features of BirdsEye App for iPhone:
- Powered by eBird, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and
Audubon
- New observations are downloaded from eBird over the network
- Over one million bird observations each month reviewed by local birding
experts.
- Map of 25,000 birding hotspots
- Can show you where any one of 847 North American species has been seen
recently – and even give you directions
- Keeps a record of your life list
- For the 470 most observed North American birds (377 additional bird
content can be purchased separately) there are photographs, songs and calls
and Kenn Kaufman's notes about the species.
A user review of BirdsEye app:
"What makes this
birding app for iPhone so extraordinarily useful for identifying birds is that it shows
you the birds that have been reported near your location within the last several
days. This narrows the range of possibilities and, combined with the beautiful
and detailed bird photos, allows for rapid identification. It also gives you the
locations of nearby hotspots that are open to the public and tells you what
birds have been spotted there recently. While other bird field guides for the iPhone are certainly useful, this one is unique and deserves consideration by
any serious birder." - Jerry Feld

View iBird
Explorer Pro
Some Features of iBird Explorer Pro App for iPhone:
- Interactive field guide for every species (924) found in North America, Canada,
Hawaii, and all coasts and islands, even extinct birds!
- Audubon-quality full sized color illustrations, with perching and flight views
- Full color range maps for every species
- Search by song, conservation status, genus, species, shape, size, color,
flight pattern, bill shape and length, wing shape and more
- Lifetime updates to bird species information
A user review of iBird Explorer Pro app:
"Being able to search by pattern is a killer feature. Search by length, weight
and wingspan has revealed things about birds I was never aware of like being
able to find the birds that have the widest wingspan or longest length. Also,
thank you for letting me now sort the families by alphabetic as the taxonomic
search really was confusing to me. But my favorite feature is almost an
afterthought - share to hear a bird sing and see its species page. I'm using
that feature to teach my daughter how to identify birds by their song and its
just really fun." -BlackRail
Whether you are a beginner bird watcher or an expert ornithologist, either or
both birding apps for iPhone would be a great addition to your birding
knowledgebase that is extremely portable. Birdseye is currently priced at $19.99
and iBird Explorer Pro is currently $29.99. Both, we believe, are bargain prices
for the amount and quality of information you receive about birds.

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